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Swaggering vs Walking - What's the difference?

swaggering | walking |

As verbs the difference between swaggering and walking

is that swaggering is while walking is .

As adjectives the difference between swaggering and walking

is that swaggering is while walking is as a human; living.

As nouns the difference between swaggering and walking

is that swaggering is boastful, blustering behaviour while walking is .

swaggering

English

Verb

(head)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Antonyms

    * mincing

    Synonyms

    * proud

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Boastful, blustering behaviour.
  • * 1814 , George Cruikshank, ?Robert Cruikshank, The Spirit of the Public Journals
  • Since the return of the redoubtable head of the French people to Paris, I have been no less amused by his ill-digested boastings and swaggerings , than I was before delighted by the complete discomfiture of his ambitious plans.

    walking

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • .
  • * 1878 , Anthony Trollope, Ayala's Angel
  • Mrs Dosett, aware that daintiness was no longer within the reach of her and hers, did assent to these walkings in Kensington Gardens.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=September-October, author= Rob Dorit
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= These 'Bots Are Made for Walking , passage=Walking seems so simple: Just put one foot in front of the other. Yet every step you take is a precarious act. When you walk, your body’s center of mass is rarely located over one of your feet.}}

    Adjective

    (-)
  • as a human; living.
  • Elizabeth knows so many words that they call her the walking dictionary.
    Phil's mother is a walking miracle after surviving that accident.
  • Able to walk in spite of injury or sickness.
  • Characterized by or suitable for walking.
  • a walking tour
    good walking shoes

    Derived terms

    * walking bass * walking cane * walking carpet * walking cast * walking fern * walking frame * walking papers * walking patient * walking stick * walking wounded

    See also

    * shanks' pony